Hotel Kuva Chateau Taoyuan

... an informal meet n' greet. It was a very interesting experience because of the the language barrier, I had only had some of my students for 2 days (my new class) and the culture differences. I had 8 parents come so I was talking for the whole hour. One of my first parents was a mom of one of my new students. She is one of the brightest students in the 3rd grade so her mom was concerned about her being challenged. We talked for a long time and then she left and I thought I ...

... conversation every once in a while. Conversations in which I don't have to stop and think to always find the most simplified way to say things before I say them...or keep my verb tenses to the past simple, present simple and future simple. LOL. It was also very weird...being in a junior high school...with the blackboard and chalk and old-school aura about it. I had many flashbacks to my own junior high school days the first month I taught ...

... work-out and then took a cab home. By Sunday I had secured a new scooter. I paid NT$9,500 (about $328.00) and now have a DUKE scooter. I also managed to stay in the green shades. RHONDA was this emerald green color and DUKE is teal colored. All is good. Compared to RHONDA, DUKE was like riding on a cloud! No strange noises and smoke billowing out. A friend of mine even said she sounded like an air compressor. Back in May a group of us (foreign ...

... like this when they present themselves'. So, I did. I asked him if I would be able to get his number. He seemed a bit surprised by this...but gave me his number nonetheless. I was euphoric...this was the first phone number (that WASN'T work related) I had gotten in Taiwan. I felt like I was making huge progress. Meghan and I got our pizza, went to the dorm and then went 'home' to our new abode. The next day I sent Mr. Blue Eyes (his name was Joel) a text message asking him if he ...

... were in our hotel room getting changed. We went downstairs and all the people had already gone into the club. The five of us who were left behind ended up having to pay cover. I was a little annoyed by that...the whole idea was for the birthday crew (especially the birthday girl) to get in for free and there I was...on the outside...looking in and having to pay my own cover. So in we go...I was looking pretty smokin' in this low cut (front and back cleavage) red dress. I ...

... is a pain. I had about 3+ years of German, and I think I was just finally getting it. THough 1/3 of the time they covered grammer and writing, 1/3 speaking, and then 1/3 history and culture, so guess should be about a 1yr if just concentrate on the speaking part (though I understand now why they say Mandarin is even harder than English to learn :(. Even then I could only do simple sentances ...

... in it ^^). Getting the shots was worth it though because there was major improvements with my hives by the end of the day. Oh, and I found out that cute guys work in motorcycle shops, or at least in the one near the dermatologist's office. I swear I'm not as boy-crazy as I come off in these entries, but I'm trying to disprove my conspiracy theory that there are no hot guys my age in the places I visit in ...

Route: Wujie - Chilan - Tuchang - Lioumao-an - Nanshan ( Road No.7 ) Total distance: 31 km Altitude up: 1000m Altitude down: 200m The alarm clock rings at 5:15 am. I pack my remaining things, have my prepared toasts and leave 30 minutes later. I walk the 5 km to the bus station, buy my ticket and the bus leaves punctual at 7:00. The bus is full with school children and it's not easy to place my backpack somewhere. In the last major village all ...

... day. I think I can learn to enjoy this. :) It's Chinese New Year Eve-New Year - I really can't tell when the day-change took place as the plane moved across the Pacific Ocean. Wish everyone a great, healthy and prosperous year! Looking forward to seeing Joanna. It's been almost a month. I hope she has recovered from her cold and bronchitis. I am feeling a little weak now after a few sleep-deprived weeks. There are still a lot ...

... 80s/high 70s feels cool, maybe even a little cold. (It finally has cooled off here a little- I don't think I've ever been more excited about Fall coming) ...you've started to ration yourself to one CoCo's drink a day. ...you now speak one of two languages- broken English (because that's a lot of what you hear) or broken Chinese (because that's what I'm trying to learn). That's all for now, but I will write again soon. don't you worry.